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Dr. Hasan A. Yahya

The worldwide wave of grief that has greeted the news of the untimely death of pop star Michael Jackson is as extraordinary as was the man himself. News bulletins globally have been dominated by reports first of his death and then of the preliminary results of his autopsy, which was completed by toxicology tests. While the toxicology tests still being conducted, Michael Jackson’s cause of death is listed as “deferred” on his official death certificate which shows   that his sister LaToya Jackson provided the information on the death certificate,  as “musician” in the field of “entertainment.”

There is no social category or status did not share mourning MJ worldwide. Cities around the world from Los Angeles, to, Shanghai, including Mumbai, Paris, London, Berlin, Cairo, Manama, Lebanon, and Tokyo.  Sydney and Johannesburg, stunned fans gathered in vigils and sang his music. Politicians found time out to express their deep regret at Jackson’s passing. The Internet slowed to a crawl and the Twitter site actually crashed, as fans searched out the latest news, exchanged messages and made millions of commercial downloads of Jackson songs. TV networks in many countries cleared their schedules to broadcast tribute programs to the dead star.

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He was equally adored and ridiculed like no one else. He made society respectful to the African-American people, but he passed away as a white guy. Controversy and unconventional lifestyle characterized more than half of his lifetime, but his extraordinary dance skills and singing talent elevated him to heights undreamt of. He was humiliated and shattered by the tabloids because of his alleged relationships with children, but he sold over 750 millions copies worldwide. Michael Jackson passed away shockingly at the age of 50, on June 25, 2009, but his legacy goes beyond ordinary obituaries, exceeding the limits of human perception.

Jacko, as his fans loved to call him, started his fascinating career in 1969, at the age of 11 with The Jackson Five. Although he was the youngest of the five Jackson brothers, he stood out for his incredible dance moves and his high-pitched voice. In 1979, he released his first solo album, ‘Off The Wall’ that sold 20 million copies worldwide and went 7x Platinum in the U.S. However, Jacko’s career soared to the sky with ‘Thriller’, released in 1982, the album with the highest record sales in the history of music. ‘Thriller’ sold nearly 107 million copies worldwide, stayed #1 for 37 weeks and went 28x Platinum. Because of its enormous success, ‘Billie Jean’ and ‘Beat It’ were the first video clips ever aired on MTV by an African-American artist, which, in effect, opened the way for the Black community to gain mainstream acknowledgment. It also enabled the promotion and development of R&B, hip-hop and pop music.

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R.I.P. – Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

I was acquainted with his music when I was in my teens. While the highpoint of the Convent Prom was that boys from St. Joseph’s School, our brother school, were going to be there, the singularly most important part of the evening that made it so memorable was not the lanky boys in their new stubbles and croaky vocal chords, not their thin frames and cocky swagger, not even the fanciest of dresses that the girls wore. The lasting memory of that end-of-school-year Prom has been his distinctive voice that sang in a unique note, the sound that fell in its own genre and like no other and the overall music that just swept me away.

The second initiation came when I, freshly, got into college; and a friend who was a BBC Radio regular boasted about being abreast with the latest musical fad of that time, yes Beat It, Billie Jean and Thriller. The initial drive for me was that I didn’t want to be left behind from the mass hysteria that was fast engulfing my generation. Once I had been indoctrinated by a gentle nudge from friends, I soon, of my own volition, got baptized into this holy sect of scintillating, never-heard-before sound. Such was the pull and the drawing power of the music and the magnetism of its creator that we simply got sucked in. The western music loving people of my generation had found a new God and his name was Michael Jackson. He was more than an enigma or a phenomenon for us. To us, he was our musical messiah who herded us to the blessed land that lay beyond our daily trials and tribulations.

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Release Date: 16-OCT-2001Given the pace of Michael Jackson’s post-Thriller release schedule, it’s striking that Off the Wall appeared between two albums with his brothers, Destiny (1978) and Triumph (1980), on which the twentysomething phenomenon was also fully engaged. Aided by richly detailed but not overdone production, Off the Wall redefined how much Michael might do. Read the rest of this entry

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American musician, dancer, and entertainer. Referred to as the King of Pop, he is the most commercially successful and one of the most influential entertainers of all time. His unique contributions to music, dance, and fashion along with a highly publicized personal life, made him a prominent figure in popular culture for over four decades.

Alongside his brothers, he made his debut in 1964 as lead singer and youngest member of The Jackson 5, and later began a successful solo career in 1971. His 1982 album Thriller remains the best-selling album of all time, with Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995) also among the world’s best selling albums. He is widely credited with having transformed the music video from a promotional tool into an art form. Videos for his songs “Billie Jean”, “Beat It” and “Thriller” made him the first African American artist to amass a strong crossover following on MTV. With stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of physically complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical sound, vocal style and choreography inspired numerous pop, rock, R&B and hip hop artists breaking down cultural, racial, and generational barriers.

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The entire world was surprise to hear of Michael Jackson’s unforeseen death at the year of fifty. The King of Pop, Jackson, wrote some of the greatest popular music of all day, liked across the world. He was also the most strange man of our time, an icon and laugh line who spend his life as a life of music, a bizarre and the only figure who inspired intense feelings from all sides. With his passing, Michael Jackson gifts are expected to surge in popularity. Wholesalers should take this chance to snap up before they are too pricey.
Beginning from early childhood, Michael Jackson was in the limelight, a star first as the charming young frontman of his family’s band. When Jackson was five years old. The life was hard on young Michael. His father was even harder. Run around all his early life, Michael tried to rebuild a child year after becoming a stupendously wealthy solo singer star. He built a massive estate named Neverland Ranch from the classic tale of perpetual boyhood, Peter Pan. Hosting exotic animals, theme park rides and stacks of affluent baubles, Michael became a recluse, going out in public with a surgical mask at times, an umbrella typically.
Jackson’s eccentricity was offset by his incomparable artistry. Working with the legendary producer Quincy Jones, Michael released the most welcomed} CD in history—Thriller—and also the second most successful—Dangerous. Michael wrote his own songs, choreographed his own dance moves and had one of the most recognizable voices in pop music history. His moves was also beloved, the moonwalk being his unique move. Michael’s music output dropped off after his wrong doing and money troubles began in the mid 90s, but his classics—”Beat It!”, “Don’t Stop till You Get Enough!”, “Billy Jean” and many more songs still gain a lot of radio play.
With his ongoing and intense popularity, wholesale Michael Jackson products are supposed to insert into online shopping cars across the web over the next few weeks.With some great star, their ability and distance from the rest of us makes them fit awkwardly in our world. Michael Jackson—mysterious, controversial, self-evidently talented—was among the sincerest icons of this truth. Michael Jackson posts are filling the blogosphere and proactive retailers are buying into wholesale Michael Jackson products today as millions mourn this great and tragic music figure. We watched Michael make himself strong, we made him into who he ended up being.

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Since a film reviewer as soon as someone tells you a film “wasn’t so as to  bad” subsequently recital your depressing re-examine it feels like sweet evidence as soon as a film comes along proving it doesn’t benefit someone to do the accepted thing to a less important upshot. Since the moment playmate cop comedy of 2010 arrives, The Others Guys proves patience is a virtue, not to allusion it would appear Adam McKay can give rise to a film I truly like.

Concerning McKay’s prior teamings with Other Guys co-star desire Ferrell, I found no more than mild amusement in Anchorman (Jack Black kicking the dog inedible the overpass was the no more than important end on behalf of me), Talladega Nights was decent but the trailers ruined it on behalf of me and I possibly will turn the relaxation of my life not including always since Step Brothers again. It feels fussy to in a jiffy be on the other flank of the fence.

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Michael Jackson

`A Duck in a World of Swans`

Michael Jackson is not a legend; Shangri La, Camelot, King Arthur, Robin Hood and Xanadu are legends. A legend is a story about a place or a person that never existed, Michael Jackson was bigger than a legend; he was a real person who lived up to the status that only a legend can acquire. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29th 1958. Two generations of music lovers grew up with his music, his publicity and an admiration for the boy and man who became the biggest of his, and the next generation. Not many people on the planet were alone in their fascination for this man who did the impossible at times. In that I mean he constantly re-invented himself, he went that one plain higher and he excelled at everything his art asked of him. Legend, no he was a genius and a creator, but he was human. As Kryptonite is to Superman, being a human was Michael’s weakness, one he would sadly never conquer. In fact it was this weakness that eventually destroyed him, and that is the most tragic aspect of his premature death. In death he is hopefully at peace, a peace that all his money, fame and famous friends couldn’t give him. A peace that was stolen from him as a child allegedly by his own father, a peace that, like the search for the Holy Grail, was always going to be his `Impossible Dream`. Michael claimed that he was constantly told by his father Joe that he was ugly, and unloved. Tell a child that enough times and they will eventually believe it, Michael grew up thinking of himself as a `Duck in a World of Swans`. That is a complete contrast to the original saying made famous by designer Coco Chanel who was quoted as saying, “I am a Swan in a World of Ducks”.